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AZORES.

(PORTUGUESE COLONY.)

United States Consul Lewis Dexter writes from Fayal, June
13, 1893:
There are in the Azores three practicing dentists. Two are
located at Pinto Delgade and one at Fayal, the one at Fayal
having studied at Baltimore, Md. I can not learn whether
there are any laws regulating the practice of dentistry upon these
islands, unless it may be considered that the indifference of the
people to the benefits of dentistry or, perhaps, in part their pov-
erty, engenders what might be termed " laws," which the dentist
must regard or be left without patients. * * * Most of the
people on these islands still go to the barber or to the shoe-
maker, who, for a small charge, with their forceps extract the
offending tooth.

BARBARY.

This country or region of North Africa includes the States of
Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Fezzan, Barca and Tripoli.

MOROCCO.

Area, 219,000 square miles. Population, 5,000,000.
Capitals: Fez, population, 80,000; Morocco, population, -50,000; Mequinez,
population, 56,000.
In 1892 there arrived from Boston an American dentist to
Tangier. We ha\*e not been able to ascertain if there are any
dentists practicing in the other cities. There are no laws in Mo-
rocco regulating dentistry, nor that of any other profession.